1938 German troops enter Austria

1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)

1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra

1942 the first deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp

1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands

1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested

1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death

1947 Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.

1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"

1959 The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight

1959 The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.

1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus

1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain

1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto

1965 Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music".

1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)

1967 The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France.

1967 U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops engage in one of the heaviest battles of Operation Junction City. The fierce fighting resulted in 210 reported North Vietnamese casualties.

1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting

1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet

1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"

1970 12th Grammy Awards Aquarius, Crosby Stills &Nash, Peggy Lee win

1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation

1971 Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer, dies

1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts

1974 Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album

1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails

1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

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